Nur Kahn is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and their work has been published in The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021 and was a finalist for Narrative Magazine's Winter Prize in 2022 and The Missouri Review's Editor's Prize in 2021.
Z.L. Nickels’ writing has previously appeared in Image, The Hopkins Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a new account of figurative language as a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.